Essays Tagged: "Napoleonic Wars"

Napoleon's Role at the Battle of Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo was the final and decisive action of the Napoleonic Wars, that effectively ended French domination of the European continent and brought abou ...

(5 pages) 85 0 4.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The Congress of Vienna

s revolutions between 1830 and 1848.The Congress of Vienna's main goals were to bring an end to the Napoleonic wars and restore peace in Europe. There were two opposing political philosophies that gre ...

(1 pages) 83 0 1.9 Mar/1997

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Why was the war of 1812 favored by the South and West and opposed by New England? Includes a bibliogrophy.

border with Canada. Finally, the attempt of Great Britain to impose a blockade on France during the Napoleonic Wars was a constant source of conflict with the United States (Boorstin-Kelly, 198-200).T ...

(3 pages) 63 0 5.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

"Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and personal reflections.

lived off of friends and small sums he collected from prose works. He lived during the times of the Napoleonic Wars and witnessed the discovery of electricity. However, medical understanding at that t ...

(9 pages) 161 0 3.6 Aug/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Why did the cause of Italian Unity make such slow progress before 1850?

left Italy fragmented. The congress divided the peninsula among European nations and victors of the Napoleonic wars into five principle states, being; Piedmont (including Sardinia, Nice and Savoy), Lo ... les. Italy therefore merely reflected the interests of the victorious European Powers.One legacy of Napoleonic government had been the introduction of liberalism through his modern and efficient mode ...

(5 pages) 37 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Karl Marx

e "Who gets what and why?" Marx was born just after the monarchical restorations that concluded the Napoleonic wars. He studied philosophy at Berlin and then edited a radical newspaper, which argued t ...

(2 pages) 94 2 3.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

The Monroe Doctrine causes and effects

European internal affairs nor for European imperialists to colonize America.Around the time of the Napoleonic Wars in the 1820s some of Spain?s colonies gained their independence. The United States w ...

(7 pages) 111 1 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Explain the developments leading up to the Boer War

ikaner settlers, also known as the Boers, since its acquisition by Britain at the conclusion of the Napoleonic wars. Throughout the 19th century, these two inhabitants maintained a strained relationsh ...

(9 pages) 45 0 4.3 Aug/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

"Before the French Revolution, gradual reform was well under way in Europe" Discuss

, loads of reforming movements had place elsewhere, which led to several revolutionary wars and the Napoleonic Wars.If we take a look at 18th Century British society, we realise that it was the golden ... French emperor Napoleon and his powerful armies threatened the international balance of power. The Napoleonic Wars ended up with the Congress of Vienna, that supposed a victory for Britain, and pace ...

(6 pages) 66 0 3.0 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

Was the British Empire a good thing that enlarged the world creating possibilities for everyone or was it just a way for some to gain power and wealth?

and or influenced by the British. The British imperial century took place from 1815, the end of the Napoleonic Wars until the year 1914, the beginning of World War I. During this century, the British ... terest in Africa did not include The Cape Colony though, which the British gained at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and which served a key role in supplying ships on the British trade route to India.T ...

(3 pages) 49 1 1.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

19th Century- European Explorers

Although the Napoleonic Wars distracted the attention of Europe from exploratory work in Africa, those wars never ...

(3 pages) 14 0 3.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Music Awareness, Contextual Studies: "National Schools within the Romanticism"

d genres were not particularly assigned to a single country, they were "internationals". After the "Napoleonic Wars" in Europe, countries struggled to gain independence. National identity was the main ...

(11 pages) 82 1 4.7 Apr/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Describe the process of Italian unification in the 19th century

. The Congress had divided the territory among a number of European nations and the victors of the Napoleonic Wars. The Kingdom of Sardinia recovered Piedmont (Piemonte), Nice, and Savoy and acquired ...

(8 pages) 80 2 5.0 May/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Aims of the Congress of Vienna (815)

fer from this theory, as history teaches us.The congress of Vienna was the result of the end of the Napoleonic Wars and all the violence and conflict they had brought with it. It reflected the deep ch ... The fact that France was not partitioned and was restored to its territorial boundaries before the Napoleonic era shows that the diplomats understood that France was as a matter of fact, a key point ...

(11 pages) 58 0 4.5 Jul/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

General Background to World War I--European History, 1871 to 1914: A very brief overview

5-1914 is often referred to as the "Hundred Years' Peace," or "Pax Britannica." From the end of the Napoleonic Wars at Waterloo in 1815 until the outbreak of war in 1914, Europe found itself relativel ...

(10 pages) 53 0 5.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

The Vienna Congress: Re-Establishing the Old Order

The French Revolution and Napoleonic wars which produced new ideas of popular sovereignty, liberalism, and nationalism threate ... d to reestablish the old conservative order and prevent the spread of the new order associated with Napoleonic France. Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo was an epic triumph for the allies of the Congress ... for the victors an end to the ideological trends initiated by the French Revolution and subsequent Napoleonic wars.The Congress opened on October 1, 1814 and lasted to June 9, 1815 and focused on fou ...

(4 pages) 53 0 5.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Historical Inquiry on Napoleon

The investigation focuses on the on Napoleon's rise to power to better understand his personality, Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon's political spectrum and his downfall after the defeat at waterloo. Histor ... eon's era and his vision, which lasted from 1799 - 1815. Historical books such as, Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars by Albert Marrin and Napoleon: from 18 Brumaire to Tilsit by Georges Lefebvre are ev ...

(6 pages) 49 2 4.6 Nov/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Causes of the War of 1812

in Europe, because they were trading with both the English and French, while they were fighting the Napoleonic Wars. The United States was becoming more and more powerful and to keep the economy growi ...

(4 pages) 31 1 4.0 Jan/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Napolean

eon got to France he became a General. The wars that occurred while he was general were called the Napoleonic Wars. The Napoleonic wars were a series of wars fought against several European monarchi ...

(2 pages) 944 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Pride And Prejudice

plaint that she shows no interest in the great social events of her time - by which it is meant the Napoleonic wars" (White 33). Apart from the doubt whether these national cataclysms are the im ...

(7 pages) 18 0 3.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers